Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. Here’s why P2P lending is an ideal business financing option for startups and SMEs. Lenders needn’t support 100 percent of the financing; rather, it is pooled by many lenders.

Credit Scoring 86

Credit Scoring CAGR Banking Finance 86

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. He went on to explain: "One practitioner might use the 1-year Treasury as their risk-free rate, while others may use the 10 or 30-year.

CAPM 14

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle. Mobilizing resources.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Execution risk relates to the entrepreneur's ability to attract employees and partners who can implement the venture's plans. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms. On the one hand, it can be difficult to reduce risk without resources. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

Definition 10

Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)

Cost of Capital 13

Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 13